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Quote by Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it til

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. – Virginia Woolf

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If we didnt live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, Ive no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. – Virginia Woolf

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947

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Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. РAndr̩ Gide

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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. – Thomas A. Edison

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. – E. M. Cioran

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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – John Ruskin

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